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What is the Singularity?

Some 20 to 140 years from now — depending on which evolutionary or systems theorist, computer scientist, technology studies scholar, or futurist you happen to agree with — the rate of self-catalyzing, self-organizing, ever more autonomous (human-independent) technological change in our local environment will undergo a "singularity," becoming effectively instantaneous from the perspective of current biological humanity. It has been postulated that events after this point must also be "future-incomprehensible" to existing humanity, though we disagree.

http://www.singularitywatch.com/

See NetworkTheory, CollectiveIntelligence, EvolutionaryGameTheory

Nature abhors singularities

Nature abhors singularities, BlackHoles don't really contain a singularity, The OneHundredMonkeys phenomonon doesn't really happen, and division by zero is prohibited (the 11th commandment, <grin>). 'But because power functions in networks (NetworkTheory) allow tiny influences to have dramatic outcomes, we witness effective singularities.'

Consciousness is almost there

Consciousness is at the edge of what is, and what could be in what turns out to be a CollaborativeExistence. At the singularity the mental, the spiritual and the physical worlds become aspects of the same underlying logical universe.

WE need to GetRich

WE will be the singularity, but first we need to GetRich. :)

More likely we just need to GetTogether.